NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Dry Dress Rehearsal

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 crew members, NASA astronaut Nick Hague (right) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, walk out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a countdown dress rehearsal on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, to prepare for the upcoming Crew-9 launch. Hague and Gorbunov will launch to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket. Launch is targeted for 1:17 p.m. EDT Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Crew-9 is the ninth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the space station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.